Didn't the Dominion cease to exist in Olympus Descending?
Cold Equations: Speculations and Suppositions
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Well, between the Federation and the Cardassians, the Khitomer Alliance pretty securely controls the mouth of the Wormhole.
Though that might be exactly why the Pact would want to make friends with the Dominion. Give their potential-enemies something else to draw their attention.
Though that might be exactly why the Pact would want to make friends with the Dominion. Give their potential-enemies something else to draw their attention.
Well, the Great Link ceased to exist. But I don't think it's been established whether or not the empire they controlled -- the Dominion -- survived under new management. Yet.
Given how tightly centralized the Founders' grip on power was, I can't really see the Dominion surviving their dissolution, at least not in the same form. In any case, we can't just casually assume that the Dominion exists essentially unchanged in the Typhon Pact era, and that's what everyone in the last few posts seems to be doing.
Yes, you are right. It has been a long time, and last time we saw, it was really just Odo in charge - was Laas there too still? That will have surely changed the Dominion's overall aims and such like, if the Vorta remained loyal to him/them. I guess we will find out possibly this summer what has happened to our favourite Gamma Quadrant state, given the promise of DRG's new books.
I think this is probably one of the biggest unanswered questions from the first part of the DS9 Relaunch, and I'm really hoping that Plagues of Night/Raise the Dawn will finally give us some answers.
My interpretation was that it still existed in some form, but it was completely controlled by Odo and Laas now.
My interpretation was that it still existed in some form, but it was completely controlled by Odo and Laas now.
^^ On the other hand -- it's not like the Dominion lacked for ambitious Vorta. Nor is it like any religion in history has ever wanted for ambitious leaders who justified their attempts to seize and wield power to themselves and to others by saying it's the will of their gods.
All of that is true; I'm simply saying that it's premature to speculate about a Typhon Pact/Dominion treaty when we don't yet have a definition of what the Dominion currently is -- and don't even know for sure whether it still exists.
it could've degenerated into civil war as planets sought to escape the Founders control and ambitious Vorta tried to create their own fiefdoms.
The founders did not micro-manage the Dominion; they barely even managed it. They seemed to be content leaving the running of the Dominion to the Vorta - we know most Vorta and Jem'hadar never even saw a founder; the dominion member species didn't even know with certainty whether the founders existed, let alone the fact they were changelings.
As long as the Vorta and Jem'hadar exist, the Dominion can survive the founders' dissapearance with minimal effects.
As for an Typhon Pact-Dominion alliance: if, after the tal shiar/obsidian order actions at the Omarion Nebula and what the dominion did to its cardassian 'allies' afterwards, the romulans want to ally themselves with the Dominion, then the romulans are truly inept.
Of course, we already have a rather long list of the romulans being outwitted (in the pale moonlight, inter arma, enim, silent leges, serpents among the ruins, rough beasts of empire) - so I guess it's possible.
You know, you could read the book and find out for yourself. It'd be a lot more satisfying than fishing for factoids on a BBS.
okay I might of missed something when was the link destroyed and the founders eliminated? also correct me if I am wrong that cardassia is not a member of the typhon pact?
but I can see the vorta buying for control of the dominion and what's left of the jem a'dar.
but I can see the vorta buying for control of the dominion and what's left of the jem a'dar.
The Founders were not eliminated. The Great Link was voluntarily dissolved in The Dominion: Olympus Descending by David R. George III, from Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Vol. III.
As of Typhon Pact: The Struggle Within, the Cardassian Union is a signatory to the Khitomer Accords and thus a full member of the Khitomer Alliance opposing the Typhon Pact.
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